Clever

Education Technology

SoftwareEngineer(MidorSenior)

$115–181k San Francisco, California, United States; United States Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Software Engineer (Mid or Senior) at Clever. Skills: Go, React, Data pipelines, Microservices. Connect schools to ecosystem. Power Clever's products”

What You'll Achieve.

Delivery of robust, maintainable code; Successful execution of features; Simplify complex data connections; Simplify data transformations

Industry & Context.

Education Technology
Problems you'll solve

Architect solutions; Problem solving; Data-scaling problems; Complex data connections; Data transformations

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Foundation in software engineering principles, Full-stack development, Architect solutions for product and data needs, Track record of leading small projects, Writing simple, high-performing code, Code easy to maintain long-term, Practical experience generating and automating tests, Unit tests, End-to-end tests, Understand and prioritize Clever engineering culture

Nice to Have

Go, TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS services, Lambdas, Step functions, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, MongoDB, Batch processing, Working with data at high scale, Participating in an on-call rotation, Leveraging AI coding tools, Claude Code, Cursor

What You'll Do.

Connect schools to ecosystem

Power Clever's products

Handle massive data volumes

Automate account creation

Build tools to ingest school data

Solve real-world data-scaling problems

Ensure student connection to learning resources

Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines

Develop new features for microservices

Build resilient data sync pipelines

Contribute to internal architectures

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with Product; Collaborate with Design; Collaborate with fellow engineers

Process & Methodology

Leading small projects

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